I would like to be like Britney, but maybe better. But I don't wanna outshine her..

And see she flies, and she is everywhere..

You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition..

What feeds me destroys me..

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything,….

A comprehended God is no God at all!.

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them..

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll..

We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time..

My God is rock'n'roll..

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you..

I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll..

The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those inspirational factors that drove roc….

It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70..

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'.

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show..

The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band..

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry..

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't..

I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom..